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Title: English Literature For Boys And Girls
Author: H.E. Marshall
Release Date: May, 2004 [EBook #5725]

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H.E. Marshall
English Literature
Chapter I
IN THE LISTENING TIME
Chapter II
THE STORY OF THE CATTLE RAID OF COOLEY
Chapter III
ONE OF THE SORROWS OF STORY-TELLING
Chapter IV
THE STORY OF A LITERARY LIE
Chapter V
THE STORY OF FINGAL
Chapter VI
ABOUT SOME OLD WELSH STORIES AND STORY-TELLERS
Chapter VII
HOW THE STORY OF ARTHUR WAS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH
Chapter VIII
THE BEGINNING OF THE READING TIME
Chapter IX
"THE PASSING OF ARTHUR"
Chapter X
THE ADVENTURES OF AN OLD ENGLISH BOOK
Chapter XI
THE STORY OF BEOWULF
Chapter XII
THE FATHER OF ENGLISH SONG
Chapter XIII
HOW CAEDMON SANG, AND HOW HE FELL ONCE MORE ON SILENCE
Chapter XIV
THE FATHER OF ENGLISH HISTORY
Chapter XV
HOW ALFRED THE GREAT FOUGHT WITH HIS PEN
Chapter XVI
WHEN ENGLISH SLEPT
Chapter XVII
THE STORY OF HAVELOK THE DANE
Chapter XVIII
ABOUT SOME SONG STORIES
Chapter XIX
"PIERS THE PLOUGHMAN"
Chapter XX
"PIERS THE PLOUGHMAN" -- continued
Chapter XXI
HOW THE BIBLE CAME TO THE PEOPLE
Chapter XXII
CHAUCER--BREAD AND MILK FOR CHILDREN
Chapter XXIII
CHAUCER--"THE CANTERBURY TALES"
Chapter XXIV
CHAUCER--AT THE TABARD INN
Chapter XXV
THE FIRST ENGLISH GUIDE-BOOK
Chapter XXVI
BARBOUR--"THE BRUCE," THE BEGINNINGS OF A STRUGGLE
Chapter XXVII
BARBOUR--"THE BRUCE," THE END OF THE STRUGGLE
Chapter XXVIII
A POET KING
Chapter XXIX
THE DEATH OF THE POET KING
Chapter XXX
DUNBAR--THE WEDDING OF THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE
Chapter XXXI
AT THE SIGN OF THE RED PALE
Chapter XXXII
ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THE THEATER
Chapter XXXIII
HOW THE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS
Chapter XXXIV
THE STORY OF EVERYMAN
Chapter XXXV
HOW A POET COMFORTED A GIRL
Chapter XXXVI
THE RENAISSANCE
Chapter XXXVII
THE LAND OF NOWHERE
Chapter XXXVIII
THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS MORE
Chapter XXXIX
HOW THE SONNET CAME TO ENGLAND
Chapter XL
THE BEGINNING OF BLANK VERSE
Chapter XLI
SPENSER--THE "SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR"
Chapter XLII
SPENSER--THE "FAERY QUEEN"
Chapter XLIII
SPENSER--HIS LAST DAYS
Chapter XLIV
ABOUT THE FIRST THEATERS
Chapter XLV
SHAKESPEARE--THE BOY
Chapter XLVI
SHAKESPEARE--THE MAN
Chapter LXVII
SHAKESPEARE--"THE MERCHANT OF VENICE"
Chapter XLVIII
JONSON--"EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR"
Chapter XLIX
JONSON--"THE SAD SHEPHERD"
Chapter L
RALEIGH--"THE REVENGE"
Chapter LI
RALEIGH--"THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD"
Chapter LII
BACON--NEW WAYS OF WISDOM
Chapter LIII
BACON--THE HAPPY ISLAND
Chapter LIV
ABOUT SOME LYRIC POETS
Chapter LV
HERBERT--THE PARSON POET
Chapter LVI
HERRICK AND MARVELL--OF BLOSSOMS AND BOWERS
Chapter LVII
MILTON--SIGHT AND GROWTH
Chapter LVIII
MILTON--DARKNESS AND DEATH
Chapter LIX
BUNYAN--"THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS"
Chapter LX
DRYDEN--THE NEW POETRY
Chapter LXI
DEFOE--THE FIRST NEWSPAPERS
Chapter LXII
DEFOE--"ROBINSON CRUSOE"
Chapter LXIII
SWIFT--THE "JOURNAL TO STELLA"
Chapter LXIV
SWIFT--"GULLIVER'S TRAVELS"
Chapter LXV
ADDISON--THE "SPECTATOR"
Chapter LXVI
STEELE--THE SOLDIER AUTHOR
Chapter LXVII
POPE--THE "RAPE OF THE LOCK"
Chapter LXVIII
JOHNSON--DAYS OF STRUGGLE
Chapter LXIX
JOHNSON--THE END OF THE JOURNEY
Chapter LXX
GOLDSMITH--THE VAGABOND
Chapter LXXI
GOLDSMITH--"THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD"
Chapter LXXII
BURNS--THE PLOWMAN POET
Chapter LXXIII
COWPER--"THE TASK"
Chapter LXXIV
WORDSWORTH--THE POET OF NATURE
Chapter LXXV
WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE--THE LAKE POETS
Chapter LXXVI
COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEY--SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
Chapter LXXVII
SCOTT--THE AWAKENING OF ROMANCE
Chapter LXXVIII
SCOTT--"THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH"
Chapter LXXIX
BYRON--"CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE"
Chapter LXXX
SHELLEY--THE POET OF LOVE
Chapter LXXXI
KEATS--THE POET OF BEAUTY
Chapter LXXXII
CARLYLE--THE SAGE OF CHELSEA
Chapter LXXXIII
THACKERAY--THE CYNIC?
Chapter LXXXIV
DICKENS--SMILES AND TEARS
Chapter LXXXV
TENNYSON--THE POET OF FRIENDSHIP
YEAR 7
Chapter I IN THE LISTENING TIME
HAS there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there
ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not.

When we were little, before we could read for ourselves, did we
not gather eagerly round father or mother, friend or nurse, at
the promise of a story? When we grew older, what happy hours did
we not spend with our books. How the printed words made us
forget the world in which we live, and carried us away to a
wonderland,

"Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew
And flowers put forth a fairer hue,
And everything was strange and new;
The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here,
And their dogs outran our fallow deer,
And honey bees had lost their stings,
And horses were born with eagles' wings."*

*Robert Browning.
And as it is with us, so it is with a nation, with a people.
In the dim, far-off times when our forefathers were wild, naked

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